Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series)
By: Francesca T. Royster
4.19
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to…
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1. The Women of Brewster Place
By: Gloria Naylor
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
IN HER HERALDED FIRST NOVEL, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Bre… read more
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2. The Blood of Emmett Till
By: Timothy B. Tyson
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Timesbestseller r… read more
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3. First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
By: Kate Andersen Brower
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White Ho… read more
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4. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
6. Coming Home
By: Kennedy Ryan
3.88
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
They got everything they wanted...but never had each other. Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
8. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
By: Danyel Smith
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
By: Abbi Waxman
3.59
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antis… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- audiobook
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
12. This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
By: Busy Philipps
3.91
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Busy Philipps’s autobiographical book offers the same unfiltered and candid storytelling that her I… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself."-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
"Here's the thing: It's not easy to be a woman in this business. There will always be jokes about your body. There will always be guys who steal your best ideas and pass them off as their own. There w…"-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)
13. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
14. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
15. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
16. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- audiobook
19. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
20. My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
By: Alice Randall
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Colton Gentry's Third Act
By: Jeff Zentner
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more
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- music
- audiobook
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act
22. Good Girls Don't
By: Mara Wilson
3.44
Format: 82 pages, ebook
Writer-actor Mara Wilson navigates the good-girl-versus- bad-girl tropes from early childhood throu… read more
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- queer
- audiobook
23. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- audiobook
25. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
By: Anita Hill
4.18
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
"An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
26. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- history
- audiobook
27. A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
By: Wheeler Parker Jr.
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with moving recollection… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series)
By: Francesca T. Royster
4.19
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to… read more
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- music
- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- queer
29. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
By: Marie Arana
4.29
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
31. Five-Star Stranger
By: Kat Tang
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more
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- audiobook
